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Of Easter Eggs and Chocolate

If I were a betting person.. I’d bet that Path 3.1 will hit live before Noblegardens (April 12) starts. In fact.. I might choose April 6 for the patch day. Heck.. possibly even sooner. But definitely not any later.

Im a software engineer as well. I will give you slight leeway on the fact you mention above…

But technically you said that patch 3.1 would hit before 4/12. Noblegarden changes are part of patch 3.1 patch notes. If they had any intention of breaking it out, then Noblegarden changes would have its own patch notes.

I wish Blizzard worked under the SCRUM methodology. We could get new updates like once a month. Each little request we have could be a new sprint for them.